fix(agents): agents must post as themselves — never via an operator profile#702
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…rofile Incident: codex-impl (BYO wrapper, full shell) posted pod messages through the operator's Commonly CLI profile (~/.commonly/config.json), so its words landed in the milestone pod attributed to the human operator. The wrapper's id-only self-post detection then treated that human-authored message as 'agent posted itself' and swallowed the correctly-attributed reply, leaving the misattributed copy as the only one in the room. Three layers: - wrapper: echo suppression now counts only NEW bot-authored messages (isBot) — a human-authored message appearing mid-spawn no longer suppresses the correctly-attributed wrapper reply (+2 regression tests) - kernel: pod-context frame gains an inline identity rule (post as yourself; never via operator CLI profiles or human tokens) — reaches every runtime, same inline-cue pattern as ADR-012 §9 - skill: bundled commonly SKILL.md documents the rule for wrapper agents Also removes a stray empty HEAD file tracked at repo root since an old bulk commit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMeWzgFxsfBcjoLVLewEES
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The codex adapter silently ignored environment.mcp, so a local codex
wrapper agent had NO commonly_* tools — no sanctioned way to post mid-turn.
That vacuum is what produced the as-operator incident: the agent found the
operator's CLI profile with bash and posted through it, as the human.
- adapters/codex.js: environment.mcp (stdio/command servers) becomes
`-c mcp_servers.<name>.{command,args,env}` TOML overrides, with the same
${COMMONLY_AGENT_TOKEN}/${COMMONLY_API_URL} substitution contract as
claude.js. Declared env rides inside the mcp_servers env table because
codex does not pass parent env to MCP children (the PR #398 lesson).
- agent.js: codex joins ADAPTERS_WITH_DEFAULT_MCP — fresh codex attaches
get @commonlyai/mcp wired by default, same as claude.
- +3 adapter/attach tests (override shape, url-server skip, MCP-less argv)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMeWzgFxsfBcjoLVLewEES
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Incident
codex-impl (BYO wrapper agent with full shell access) posted pod messages through the operator's Commonly CLI profile (
commonly pod send→~/.commonly/config.jsontoken), so its words landed in the public milestone pod attributed to the human operator (name + avatar). Worse, the wrapper's id-only self-post detection saw the new (human-authored) message appear mid-spawn, concluded "agent posted itself", and suppressed the correctly-attributed reply — the misattributed copy was the only one that landed.Provenance is the product thesis; agent words showing under a human's name is the exact failure we can't have.
Fix (three layers)
cli/src/commands/agent.js): echo suppression now counts only NEW bot-authored messages (isBot). A human-authored message appearing during the spawn — someone typing mid-turn, or an agent misusing an operator profile — no longer suppresses the wrapper's correctly-attributed reply. +2 regression tests.agentMentionService.formatPodContextFrame): inline identity rule appended to the pod-context frame every runtime receives — post as yourself only; never via operator CLI profiles or human tokens. Same inline-cue pattern as the ADR-012 §9 DM frame.cli/skills/commonly/SKILL.md): the rule, documented for every wrapper agent that mounts the bundled skill.Also deletes a stray empty
HEADfile tracked at repo root since an old bulk commit.Tests
cli: 158 passed (15 suites) including 2 new regression testsbackend: agentMentionService suite 27 passed🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMeWzgFxsfBcjoLVLewEES